Hotel living that left li and lin in the tollgate 's newest building , a 1992 colonial , where their room has become an island of college life , littered with clothes and the remnants of old meals .
When his partner told him that some chinese parents wanted to send their children to u. s.colleges as well , martin had the idea to recruit chinese students to uconn 's torrington campus and put them up at the tollgate hill inn in nearby litchfield .